Colbert Report - Elizabeth Warren

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Elizabeth Warren
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Monday, May 3, 2010
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren supports financial regulation that will put rules back in place and rein Wall Street in a little bit. (06:06)

TechCrunch Social Currency CrunchUp

Agenda:

9:00 – 9:45 am
The Social Currency Investment Thesis
Michael Arrington speaks with Ron Conway and Paul Graham




9:45 – 10:15 am
Social Savings: Building the Next Billion Dollar Business
Erick Schonfeld speaks with Groupon CEO Andrew Mason

Colbert Report - Thought For Food - Cereal, Foot-Long Cheeseburger & Ecobot III

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Thought For Food - Cereal, Foot-Long Cheeseburger & Ecobot III
Sugary cereals face tougher advertising standards, Carl's Jr. introduces a foot-long cheeseburger, and a robot eats crap. (05:17)



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Solar power cools camel-transported vaccines

Professor Winston (Wolé) Soboyejo discusses his camel solar refrigerator project, which may improve vaccine delivery in remote areas of Kenya and Ethiopia. Prototypes of the refrigerators, specially designed to fit over camel humps, have been tested at the Bronx Zoo.

Video by Michael E. Wood

VIDEO: Materials science camp for teachers: re-energizing the classroom

For the past five years, the Princeton Center for Complex Materials has trained more than 150 teachers during a weeklong, hands-on summer immersion program in Princeton's state-of-the-art laboratories. Teachers learn materials science and engineering techniques that they then bring back to thousands of students in the classrom.

PCCM is a National Science Foundation-funded Materials Science and Research Center at Princeton University dedicated to pushing the frontiers of complexity in materials science. The materials science teachers camp is taught by Princeton faculty and by master teachers and is co-sponsored by the Materials Information Society.

This video features Richard Register, chair of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton, and Daniel Steinberg, educational outreach director for the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials.

Applications for this free weeklong training camp are now being accepted for the summer of 2010.

Video by Kevco Productions.

Princeton president discusses role of women in the sciences: past, present and future

Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman, a distinguished molecular biologist, discusses the role of women in science -- past, present and future.

Her address was part of "Women in Theory," a conference on theoretical computer science hosted in June 2010 by Princeton's Center for Computational Intractability.

Tilghman talks about the early battles of women in the sciences during the 1970s and 1980s, laments that the need still exists for women-specific conferences, and emphasizes the importance of self-confidence and self-discipline for women (and men) seeking to make their mark in the world of science.

Tilghman is introduced by Tal Rubin. Conference co-chairs included Rubin and Boaz Barak and Moses Charikar. More here:

Elon Musk Sat Down With Stephen Colbert, Talked Tesla, SpaceX And The Irony Of The Two

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Elon Musk certainly hasn’t been on the down-low lately. Well, with the Tesla’s IPO and then Toyota huge investment and manufacturing deals. Then there’s the lawsuits and his devoice. So yeah, it’s no wonder that Jon Favreau modeled his Tony Stark character after Elon — or so says Wikipedia.

But last night he had a friendly fireside chat with Stephen Colbert, where it was really nothing more than reading of the man’s resume and talking about his ventures. Of course Colbert talked circles around the PayPal co-founder as he tends to do. It’s not like The Colbert Report is known as a hard-hitting news program anyway. That’s more the style of The Daily Show. Click through for the video.

Forza Kinect - Trailer HD di debutto all'E3 2010

Forza Kinect - Trailer HD di debutto all'E3 2010


Se cerchi amici per giocare online con i tuoi giochi preferiti su Xbox Live, visita Gamertagmatch.com, la prima community italiana per i giocatori Xbox Live.

Direttamente dalla conferenza Microsoft all'E3 2010 di Los Angeles, il trailer di debutto del nuovo Forza Kinect. In questa demo all'E3, Turn 10 ha mostrato una demo giocabile in cui applicava la tecnologia di Kinect in Forza 3, con una Ferrari 458 Italia sul circuito giapponese di Fujimi Kaido, attraverso l' uso di un volante virtuale gestito da Kinect.
Infine, sempre grazie al Kinect è possibile girare intorno alla stessa Ferrari, ammirarne i vari dettagli scoprendone anche le caratteristiche tecniche fino ad entrare al suo interno ed avviarne il motore.

Everlight Chemical Industrial Corporation Introduction

The core values of Everlight are Business by Integrity; Management by Caring. The mission statement, business philosophy and principles are all derivatives of these employee-shared values.

Supporting the governments economic policies, and actively nurturing technological as well as managerial talents, Everlight is engaged in fine chemicals production, facilitating the national economics and social welfare. Through international cooperation and worldwide marketing, Everlight contributes to global harmony and Quality of Life.

Pursuit of Progress and Innovation
We define progress and innovation as a challenge and need to achieve continuous improvement in the increasingly competitive markets. Therefore, we focus on building solid technical foundations for improving quality, manufacturing reliable high-tech products, and nurturing technical and commercial talent. In addition, our management oversees and coordinates all company operations including R&D, production, and marketing, and has led the company into a global business.

Stimulation of Individual Potentials
We believe the most valuable asset of every company is its human resource. Everlight values all its employees and cares for their growth by providing open and fair working environment and on-the-job training., Teamwork spirit and mutual support are facilitated to develop the full potential of each employee and the company.

Contribution of Quality of Life
e recognize that the value of a company lies in its contribution to the quality of life. Everlight has endeavoured in providing top quality products, such as dyestuffs, light stabilizers, bulk drugs, electronic chemicals and advanced materials, to the world community. Meanwhile, Everlight has been active in charitable activities.

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一年10兆韓元(2700億台幣)產值的東大門，擁有哪些成功的要素？
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擁有40年歷史的東大門綜合市場，見證了整個商圈的演變，走過1997年的亞洲金融風暴，韓國政府看到了成衣業者的韌性，2000年之後，相關政策開始陸續頒布，接著一步一步，將東大門推向亞洲市場。究竟韓國政府頒布了哪些相關政策扶植服裝產業？面對瞬息萬變的流行趨勢，東大門又是如何擁有不斷產出的嶄新設計呢

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韓國成衣，是如何迅速發展崛起？
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CITIZENS DEMAND INQUIRY WITH TEETH

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Public tells Toronto Police Services Board a G20 inquiry must find out why rights violated and by whom

One small step for dog

One small step for dog

A Russian high-altitude pressure suit for dogs has gone on display the National Space Centre in Leicester as part of it's newly completed Space Race exhibition.

As the exhibit is unpacked from its protective box, Kevin Yates, space communications manager, explains how Moscow's strays helped put Yuri Gagarin in outer space

Speaking of... Frogs, with William Andregg

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PLUNDER: THE CRIME OF OUR TIME

Bio

Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector," is a former network TV producer, radio newscaster, and edits MediaChannel.org. He has written nine books on media themes. His latest, 'Plunder', was inspired by his latest film, In Debt We Trust: America Before The Bubble Bursts




Transcript

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Washington. Danny Schechter "the News Dissector" has a new film out. It's called Plunder: The Crime of Our Time. And it opens with the demonstration of activists going to the home of John Mack, who at the time was the president of Morgan Stanley. Here's a look at that.

[clip plays]
JAY: Now joining us is Danny Schechter. He's, as I said, the director of the film Plunder. Thanks for joining us.
DANNY SCHECHTER, TV PRODUCER AND FILMMAKER: Pleasure, Paul.
JAY: So the title of the film is Plunder: The Crime of Our Time. The demonstrators went to the home of Mack and singled him out. So talk a bit about this question of why is this the crime of our time, and if it is, what's being done about the criminals.
SCHECHTER: Well, you know, the idea of a crime narrative to explain the financial crisis is something which is slowly coming into media view. It's been sort of denied. It's been ridiculed. It's been—until a number of things began to happen. First, the FBI found that there had been an epidemic of mortgage fraud in America, that the subprime loans were actually being sold fraudulently and in a criminal way, and there have been a lot of people arrested and convicted of that and of related bank frauds.
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ROBERT MUELLER, FBI DIRECTOR: Through this operation, more than 400 defendants have been charged, and we have obtained 173 convictions in crimes that accounted for more than $1 billion in estimated losses.
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SCHECHTER: Secondly, Senator Kaufman recently went on the floor of the Senate and talked about fraud as being at the very foundation of the financial crisis, the first senator to say so. The Justice Department has asked for criminal complaint or investigation in its early stages against Goldman Sachs after the SEC filed, you know, a civil complaint against Goldman Sachs. And so there's been an upswing of interest in, you know, the alleged criminality or lack of criminality of the key Wall Street players. Were they doing all of this intentionally or not? My argument in my film is they were doing it intentionally, but it wasn't just the finance industry. It was finance in, basically, complicity with real estate and insurance, the fire economy, as it's known. And together, these different players in these industries worked together to defraud the American people and to lose trillions of dollars that have vanished as a result of the financial crisis.
JAY: Now, the issue of whether it's criminal or fraud, to some extent the charging of Goldman Sachs, whether that charge ever amounts to a conviction or not, is still a big question. A lot of people have come out and said maybe it was wrong, but it wasn't criminal. Even Bill Clinton said that the other day. But the issue of the structural underpinnings of all of this, even if they convict a few people, what gives rise to such parasitism is at the very roots of how the economy's organized. And does the criminal narrative to some extent take people's eyes off the structural problem?
SCHECHTER: Well, I don't think so, because if we're going to reach the American people with concerns about this financial crisis and fight back, we have to speak to the gut, to the gut sense of people who feel that they've lost their homes, they've lost their jobs, they've lost their hopes because they've been robbed, basically. And a gut issue is what's missing, certainly in the progressive response, which sounds like, you know, a Berkeley economics seminar, you know, where people talk about credit default swaps and derivatives and all this other stuff, which leads people to—their eyes to glaze over. They can't really follow it. So we need to deal with people's guts and a sense of economic fairness and economic justice.
JAY: But the FBI is not going to solve this.
SCHECHTER: No, the FBI won't solve it. Putting some CEOs in jail won't solve it. But it—.
JAY: So what will solve it, if you're talking to ordinary people?
SCHECHTER: It will—no, but if—I wouldn't dismiss it, though, because people have a desperate desire to see that the people who caused this situation, the destruction of their jobs, the destruction of their homes, the destruction of our economy, have to pay a price. They have to be held accountable, or there can be no faith in government or even in the economy.
JAY: But maybe there shouldn't be. Maybe there shouldn't be faith.
SCHECHTER: Well, you know, there is a lot of disenchantment, disillusion, anger, outrage, and the rest of it. Americans want to see, as Reuters reported recently, big guys with stakes in their head, you know, essentially. This is the attitude of people. They want to see payback. And I think we have to demand a fraud investigation. I think we have to challenge all this crime. It's interesting. Alan Greenspan said there was no fraud. Now he's saying it was extensive fraud, there needed to be more enforcement. The reason the laws are the way they are is that they were changed by the lobbying of the financial services industry. They spent millions of dollars to deregulate, to decriminalize the whole environment, to, you know, basically decrease the size of the enforcement agencies. This was done deliberately to create a situation so that they couldn't be prosecuted the way bankers were prosecuted after the S&L [savings and loan] crisis with over 1,500 going to prison.
JAY: But that happened, and all of this happens after that. In other words—and I'm not arguing against convicting these people or—I think what they did was criminal, but the idea of an economy based on deliberately created bubbles that you know is going to burst and you're going to make money on the upside, you're going to sell short before the burst to make money on the burst, that's happened over and over again, not just in real estate.
SCHECHTER: It is true. You need structural reform here, not these tinkering-around little rule changes that are being proposed by the Obama administration. That's the appearance of financial reform, not the reality of financial reform. And all the compromises which are part of the whole congressional process will guarantee that this will happen again. In fact, it seems to be happening in the aftermath of what's happened in Greece and in Europe—people are talking about a second recession, if not something worse. So, you know, we're not out of the woods yet by any means.
JAY: Okay. So for ordinary people, they're going to have to vote this time, and there's congressional elections coming up [inaudible] presidential election. And if something's going to change, people are going to have to start voting for people that want to stop a bubble economy. So what would be a set of criteria you might say, if you're going to choose a candidate, here are some of the things they'd better stand for, or else it's not real?
SCHECHTER: Well, unfortunately, the libertarians and the right seem to have appropriated the gut issues. And, you know, they've convinced their public, their constituencies, that the government is to blame for everything. And the government certainly has been complicit, because the government has been in a sense captured by these financial interests and taken over, by and large, with all the money that's been poured into political campaign and all the corruption that's there. So we have to try to do something about that and we have to support candidates who are willing to raise these issues and call for not only accountability but fundamental change.
JAY: But what are two or three things that you think need to be called for, that you would ask somebody running, "Are you for this or not?"
SCHECHTER: Well, I mean, for one thing, you know, accountability is a very critical issue. But also, you know, we need to change and control, you know, hedge funds, which are unregulated right now and a part of a shadow banking system. We need to bring them under the scrutiny, you know, of the government. We need to limit the use of derivative products, which, you know, allow so much flexibility for these financial, you know, buccaneers to be successful. Moreover, we need a full investigation of who profited from this whole financial crisis. That has yet to happen. We still don't know who's making all the money and who—we know who isn't, you know, and that's mostly the working people, you know, of our country. We need jobs, we need, you know, economic security for people. That's not going to happen unless there are these structural changes.
JAY: And the structural change they're talking about after spending trillions in increasing the size of the deficit and now creating the idea that the deficit is the big problem facing us, and now they're going to talk about a value-added tax so they can actually get ordinary people paying the cost of the crisis.
SCHECHTER: Well, I think you're going to see that happening, because, you know, the states are bankrupt. Many states are bankrupt right now. There's been a tremendous shredding of the social safety net, cutbacks in education, cutbacks in social services. So money has to come from somewhere, and they're going to try to soak the people to provide it through a new form of taxation. I think that's—.
JAY: And at the same time they want to get rid of the inheritance tax.
SCHECHTER: I think that's obvious. On the other hand, we have to make Wall Street pay, if you will. We have to demand, you know, that they be held accountable. And I don't mean just being put in jail, but actually with financial taxes on financial transactions, you know, that would be helpful. That would generate a lot of money. Basically, we have to rearrange the way things are going. The way they're going is that they're enriching the rich, and they're leading to more stratification, more class divide, more anger on the part of ordinary people. We've got to reverse that, and we need, you know, politicians who will stand up for these principles. And so far they're very few and far between.
JAY: Thanks for joining us, Danny.
SCHECHTER: Thank you.
JAY: And thank you for joining us on The Real News Network. And you can find out more about Plunder the film at—tell us.
SCHECHTER: Plunderthecrimeofourtime.com.
JAY: There you go. And you can buy it there and you can get it on iTunes and other places. Thanks for joining us on The Real News Network.
End of Transcript

MEXICO'S DISAPPEARING MEZCAL WORMS

Across Mexico, and in many world capitals, people are increasingly raising a glass of mezcal, a traditional Mexican liquor. Connoisseurs of the strong drink say it tastes best when served the traditional way-- with a worm in it. But the worm population is being pushed into decline, due to the drink's growing popularity. Franc Contreras reports from Oaxaca state in southern Mexico.

PERU POVERTY DRIVES ILLEGAL MINING

As the international price of gold continues to soar, thousands of people in Peru have moved to gold mining areas in the hope of striking it rich. Along with the unregulated digging comes a trail of deforestation and chemical contamination that is damaging one of the most biodiverse regions on earth. In addition to the negative environmental impact, there are also many social problems in the boom towns that have emerged. Al Jazeera's Craig Mauro reports.

Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves

http://www.ted.com Tan Le's astonishing new computer interface reads its user's brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with mere thoughts (and a little concentration). She demos the headset, and talks about its far-reaching applications.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10